The unidentified driver seemed engrossed for more than minute on a busy road

He was in slow traffic but got up to around 15mph at the controls of the No.4 First Group single decker.

Passenger Mark Hepton, 42, said the driver only stopped reading to pick up passengers but carried on once he started driving again at Taplow, Bucks, on Saturday.

He said: “It was terrifying. I’ve never seen anything like it. Most of the passengers were further back in the bus so had no idea what he was doing. But I was right next to him and he was clearly reading a newspaper.

“He must have been reading it for at least a minute as the bus went along. I kept thinking I should say something but I wasn’t sure what to do.

“The driver only put it down when he stopped to let people on board but then he carried on once he started driving again. At one point I noticed a lady with a pram beside the road and I thought, ‘My God, if he doesn’t stop he could swerve and hit her.’

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“After about a minute he noticed me recording with my camera and he started staring at me in the rear view mirror. It was only then that he put the newspaper away down by his door.

“I’ve never seen anything so ridiculous. I took a photo of his license plate once I got off the bus because I thought what he was doing was so wrong. He could have killed or injured everyone on board.”